The summer break during the football season does have its quiet moments, particularly on the weekends, but I am struggling to recall a summer in which so little has happened - particularly during last week or so. Yes, I know, footballers go on holiday - as do managers - but usually there's enough ticking over to keep things vaguely interesting. Perhaps they've all been over in Poland and the Ukraine and it's there that all the big deals are being done.

Matters have also gone deathly quiet on the club's Food Store plans. The last significant news on that project came at the tail end of March with the club being told that they needed to provide submissions for the replacement training pitches and community facilities, along with the missing 3,500 capacity stand before the application could be seriously considered. With three months having passed since that request, the May 1st target date is long gone and it would appear we could be waiting a while for the next development there.

So if you've been on holiday yourself over the summer, you've not missed much. In fact the biggest news of the month was probably the club's Alvington pitch dispute with Westland Sports, which has ruffled a few feathers on both sides of the fence. For what it's worth, although I recognise that the club are in the driving seat as Trustees of the Supporters Trust, and therefore can - within the boundaries of how a charity operates - do what they want, I did feel a bit twitchy at the lack of notice that Westland appeared to have been given to sort things out in time for last week's Dorset Premier League AGM.

As fans, we surely recall how many non-league clubs live from hand to mouth, and I'd hope that as a club we wouldn't forget our roots, and how important such clubs are to their local community. That said, Westland Sports really should have protected themselves better with some sort of tenancy agreement, which I'd hope they would push for now, to provide themselves with a few guarantees for the future. Fingers crossed that they are able to get themselves back up to where they were, both on and off the field, as quickly as possible.

Shortly - and thankfully - it appears that the silly season is about to end. Gary Johnson has indicated that "three or four players" are on the edge of agreeing deals with the club, and there's no doubt that he will be aiming to finalise those in time for the first day of pre-season training for Monday 2nd July. Given that we're probably picking from players that are free agents, then the June 30th date will be particularly key.

So who are the players most likely to turn up for training next month? Well we know that right-sided defender James Clarke is coming our way on trial for two weeks, whilst Michael Woods has been invited back for pre-season training after spending the latter part of the 2011-12 season on non-contract terms.

Meanwhile, the rumourmill has persistently linked left-back Jamie McAllister with a move to Yeovil, and he has yet to be spotted at another club, whilst the same could be said about winger Jamal Campbell-Ryce and striker Izale McLeod, although in the latter two cases, Leyton Orient and Portsmouth have been named as interested parties. However, all three remain as free agents as we reach the end of June, so whilst we can't be 100 percent sure they have offers from the Glovers, on the other hand we can't rule them out.

Meanwhile Chelsea goalkeeper Sam Walker has to be the favourite to return between the sticks for the 2012-13 season. Even though I'd love to see Chris Weale do a homecoming, we'd need to be 100 percent certain that he's recovered from his knee injury earlier this year. He's unlikely to be cheap, and to be honest I suspect he'll go to a bigger club that has the luxury of two or three keepers on their books just in case anything does go wrong.

Knowing Gary, he'll probably spring a few surprises on us. He and other recent Yeovil managers have tended to trawl both the Premier League Reserve Teams and non-league clubs for needles in haystacks, and so doubtless one or two arrivals will have us scurrying for Wikipedia to look up a player that in all honesty we know nothing about.

As with recent years, once again the question will be how quickly those players will gel. From his previous spell with the club, Johnson has tended to be a manager that has recognised the benefits of keeping a stable squad together, and it sounds like we will have probably around 80-90 percent of the first team squad ready to go for next Monday - minus a couple of loans and the opportunity for a couple of trialists to impress.

Assuming those "three or four" players do sign up by the start of training, that would give around 13-14 contracted players that you could say would be immediate first team material, plus people like Gareth Stewart and Mitch Brundle who will be options for the friendlies at the very least. That's a fairly solid base to work from, with Johnson indicating that he wants to bring that total up to around 18 serious first teamers by the time we kick off against Colchester Unitedduring mid-August.

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